[Coco] So, does anyone know where to get disk drives?

[Christopher Smith]

Let me know if you get around to it.  I may be willing to buy a few even untested, considering the state of the offerings on ebay at the moment. :)  I'll have to go back and look again, it seems. From the talk on the list, it appears that I was too quick to dismiss the possibility of getting a high-density drive installed.  If I can simply jumper one to 300RPM and get some extra space from the deal under OS-9, that may not be a bad idea.

Chris

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joel Ewy" <jcewy at swbell.net>
> To: coco at maltedmedia.com
> Sent: Sunday, September 1, 2013 7:45:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] So, does anyone know where to get disk drives?
> 
> On 08/28/2013 01:11 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:
> > I'm trying to find drives for my CoCo systems, and I'm having tons
> > of trouble doing so.  I'm at the point where I may just try to
> > cannibalize other systems to get working double-density floppies
> > and build my own case, but I'd prefer not to do this unless I
> > absolutely have to.  My ebay experience trying to buy drives for
> > this seems to have ended with UPS losing my shipment after my
> > waiting a month to receive it, so not much luck there.
> >
> > Anyway, I thought I'd ask here.  Any idea where I might find a
> > couple of floppy drives in an external case? :)
> >
> > Chris
> >
> I have a few boxes of 5.25" floppy drives, and I might be willing to
> part with a few at CoCo mail list-friendly prices.  They are, of
> course,
> old, and I would need to test them before offering them for sale.
>  Some
> of them have stickers on them saying I tested them in 1993.  I'm not
> really prepared to do the work of checking them out quite yet, but
> I'm
> planning on thinning the antique computer herd just a bit, and maybe
> trying to convert some of my excess equipment into a few parts that I
> really need.  I'll give this list first crack at any CoCo-compatible
> hardware before I go evil(bay) with it.  I also have a large number
> of
> 64k and 256k DRAMs and boatloads of archaic PC and Mac hardware of
> all
> descriptions that needs to be reduced to a more manageable
> collection.
> 
> JCE
> 
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Christopher Smith
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